[Tell It Right]

I keep in our EV the same portable jump start battery kit and separate jumper cables that I keep in our ICE pickup. If the authors of this article had charged the 12V battery as step 1 then all the little nuances experienced in the rest of their test go away.

That being said, the Rivian is horribly inefficient. It's slow to charge and gets low miles per kWh. It's only purpose as I can tell is to be a status symbol for saving the world from fake warmageddon while also pretending other people see you as a real man able to pretend to do real man pickup chores.

[catnipman]

“It’s only purpose as I can tell is to be a status symbol for saving the world from fake warmageddon while also pretending other people see you as a real man able to pretend to do real man pickup chores.”

except that the ones i see around here NEVER, EVER have a load in their itty-bitty truck beds ... which sort of belies that “real man pickup chore” image ...